On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:48 PM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 08:16:40AM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > >> I did a little bit of calculation based on >> http://stats.cpantesters.org/testers.html >> and got these data points: >> ... >> Chris Williams (BINGOS) sent in 4,487,765 (34%) >> ... >> The top 63 ppl (3.66%) sent in 12,378,913 (96.46%) >> Which makes that the point of the so called 20-80 rule. >> So in the case of the CPAN Testers it is more like 4-96 rule. >> >> IMHO while the 20-80 rule is known in many situations 4-96 is a bit >> unhealthy. >> There are two ways to make it more balanced, one to make BingOS stop >> running smokers or, the better way is to get more people regularly send in >> reports. > > If Chris stops, it won't achieve anything apart from us not getting > reports from any platforms where he's the only person doing any testing. > How is this "balance" supposed to be a good thing?
David, I know that my English is not up to the level of most of those on this list, but are you serious that it was not clear that what I am saying is that we need to get more people to send in test reports? Do you really think I'd suggested that Chris stops testing? Gabor
